John King Quotes
I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask.
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As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
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I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
